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Delicate Arch


Delicate Arch
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Copyright: Stephan Duchesne (iglootrek) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 92 W: 10 N: 459] (1619)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-07-19
Categories: Desert
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel, CMOS ISO 100
Exposure: f/4, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: The crazy long drive trip
Date Submitted: 2006-09-14 23:35
Viewed: 1341
Points: 28
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Delicate Arch early in the morning...

Delicate Arch is a freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah.

It is the most widely-recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on both Utah license plates and a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of statehood in 1996. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.

Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as "the Chaps" and "the Schoolmarm's Bloomers" by local cowboys. It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933-1934. (The story that the names of Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch were inadvertently exchanged due to a signage mixup by the National Park Service is false.)

The arch played no part in the original designation of the area as a U.S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original boundaries; it was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938. In the 1950s, the National Park Service investigated the possibility of applying a clear plastic coating to the arch to protect it from further erosion and eventual destruction. The idea was ultimately abandoned as impractical and contrary to NPS principles.

During the summer months, White-throated Swifts (Aeronautes saxatalis) nest in the top of the arch, sometimes darting to and fro with great rapidity. [I WILL POST A PICTURE OF A MOTHER FEEDING BABY IN THE FOLLOWING DAYS]


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicate_Arch
Matt-Bird, blakitan, Juyona, horia, SunToucher, RAP, wkshelton, taba, scottevers7 has marked this note useful
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Hi Stephan
Nice composition. I really like the dark foreground and brighter background. You have filled the image nicely as my eye is draw around the photo.
Well seen, regards
Matt.

Hi Stephan,
Very sharp and neat image. Great angle in capturing this interesting rock formation. Excelent shot.

Ben Lakitan

Hello Stephan,
Wow! What is the probability it will fall over... nature's ways are truely amazing!
The scenery is captured with fine colours and details, and presented in a nicely composed image!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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  • manyee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3064 W: 231 N: 6157] (21034)
  • [2006-09-15 2:47]

That is a really cool shot, Stephan.
I love the perspective that you chose, and the composition is super.
The details are so crisp, and the light and shadows are interesting.
TFS. : )

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2169 W: 218 N: 4382] (14898)
  • [2006-09-15 5:03]

Hi Strphan

This is indeed a very spactacular view! Great shot!
I love the POV - shows very well the rock formation and much more beyond :)
Alos great is the DOF, with everything in focus and having nice sharp and clear details. Very beautiful colors, shadows and lights, too.

BRAVO and TFS
Horia

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2257 W: 10 N: 2625] (15547)
  • [2006-09-15 5:04]

Hola Stephan,
Maravillosa postal, perfecto encuadre, me gusta mucho tu trabajo, la luz es excelente. saludos

Hi Stephan,
Great contrast between the blue sky and the red rock. The soft shades and the clarity in the back are perfect. Details and composition are very good.
I really like your title of your travelogue.
TFS,
Niek

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  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2006-09-15 7:18]

Bello retrato Stephan con una composición muy estética.
El POV elegido, una excelente iluminación y encuadre, conforman una agradable e impactante presentación.
Saludos... Ricardo

Beautiful portrait Stephan with a very aesthetic composition.
Elected POV, an excellent illumination and framing, they conform a pleasant and impacting presentation.
Greetings... Ricardo

Hello Stephen,

excellent work, Great details, perfect colurs, excllent POV and DOF perfect details, very crisp, nicely composed and captured photo,

TFS Kyle

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  • Karin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 418 W: 5 N: 268] (2089)
  • [2006-09-15 11:20]

Hi Stephan,
Excelent sharpness and colors, and a beautiful natural work of art.
Very well done and TFS

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  • taba Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 479 W: 128 N: 300] (1689)
  • [2006-09-15 11:42]

Hi Stephan
I liked besides the great composition and colours, the the configuration of the stone,
well done.
Taba

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  • mbasil Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 336 W: 149 N: 745] (3304)
  • [2006-09-15 13:09]

Nicely done, Stephan. I'v seen several shots of this baby, but yours works well. I thinkshotting in shadow makes it a bit distinctive by focusing on the surrounding terrain, especially the cliffs riht through the arch. Well done.
Mike

Hi Stephen
Now this is a superb landscape composition!!! You handled the exposure very well keeping the sky so well and yet getting nice colors and detail in the darker doreground. Awesome shot!
Scott

Hi Stephen!
Very nice composition, with the far away mountains inside the arch frame.
Colours and light are great.
Thanks, enrico.

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